Re: [s-h] Re: ALSA patch for 2.5.2pre9 kernel

Takashi Iwai
2002-01-08T10:35:13Z

At Tue, 8 Jan 2002 11:18:34 +0100 (CET),
Jaroslav wrote:
>
> On Tue, 8 Jan 2002, Takashi Iwai wrote:
>
> >
> > > I still have some doubts about hardware specific include files:
> > > a) sound/include
> > > b) drivers/sound/{i2c,isa,pci,ppc}
> > > c) drivers/sound/include
> > >
> > > Currently my vote would go for b), but I see drawbacks for this solution
> > > (for generic chip include files, like ac97 or ak4531 ones). Perhaps it's
> > > better to have a mixed solution (partly b) and partly c)
> >
> > Agreed. The hw specific header files should be bound with *.c code
> > together.
>
> The problem is that we should export some header files to user space as
> well to allow access to hardware related features.

Hmm.. but such programs require the kernel tree anyway, since
/usr/include/linux is ususally no longer symlinked to /usr/src/linux.

Takashi